Epilogue To Jesus

I DISTANCE MYSELF RIGHT NOW FROM EVERY DEAD THING AND RELEASE THEM FROM MY LIFE, IN JESUS NAME I THANK-YOU LORD THAT I HAVE AN INHERITED LIFE THROUGH YOUR SACRIFICE AND FORGIVENESS FOR MY SINS THROUGH YOUR BLOOD, REVELATION THROUGH YOUR WORD, AND I HAVE BEEN EMPOWERED BY YOUR SPIRIT, I TAKE PRECIOUS TIME LORD TO FULLY GRASP AND CONSIDER WHAT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU MEANS, HELP ME TO NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT I’VE DECIDED TO BE TAUGHT EACH DAY, MY ADVERSARY IS THE WORLD AND SATAN IS THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD, THE WORLD AROUND ME IS NOT MY HOME, AND EACH DAY IT BECOMES MORE OF A REFLECTION OF SATAN WHO IS THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. I AM NOT ABLE TO YIELD TO SATAN’S DEVICES AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS WORLD IS DESIGNED FOR MY DESTRUCTION THE ALLUREMENT OF PLEASURE AND THE TEMPTATION THAT CROSS MY EYES ARE FOR THE PURPOSE OF ROBING ME OF EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE INHERITED THROUGH CHRIST, EVERY TRAP, EVERY LUST, AND THE PRIDE OF LIFE THAT IS OF THE WORLD ARE SET AGAINST ME ON ALL SIDES THE HOPE THAT I HAVE IS PATIENTLY WALKING ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD, AND STAYING FIRM TO THE COVENANT THAT I HAVE MADE WITH YOU, THE WORLD CANNOT STRIP MY AUTHORITY HOWEVER I CAN HAND IT OVER, I WILL NOT BE DECEIVED BY WHAT I SEE AND HEAR OR HOW I FEEL, IF IT IS NOT OF GOD THEN IT IS FOR MY DESTRUCTION ,HELP ME LORD TO SEE THE SPIRIT BEHIND THE TEMPTATION, THE WORD TELLS ME THAT SATAN CAME TO STEAL, KILL, AND

Silencing the enemy is a very fitting title for this book. It is fitting because the author, Robert Gay, explains how God suppresses the devices of the adversary through the praise and worship of His people. Although the term “spiritual warfare” is not found in scripture, Paul expounds on the concept throughout the New Testament. He encourages the saints to “Put on the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil”. This scripture informs us that we are in a battle, a battle that has been raging since the beginning of time. It is not a battle that one can see with the naked eye. Nor is it a battle that is fought with natural weapons. It is a battle that is fought in the spirit world. Our methods of

In the book Simply Jesus, N.T. Wright makes three different claims throughout. N.T. Wright's first claim is about the “perfect storm”. The “perfect storm” takes up a large section of the first few chapters, and in those chapters N.T. Wright writes about that to enter the “perfect storm” you must step out of your own storm that is happening in your life, you must jump back into the “perfect storm” just as Jesus did in his own life. N.T. Wright fails to fully support the idea of the “perfect storm” throughout the book. Wright writes about the two myths that create the “storms”, the first is “… the high-pressure system of conservative Christianity” and the second is “... the new classic modernist myth…”. N.T. Wright loses his credibility to his claims by never giving evidence that disproves they myths. N.T. Wright states that the stories in the bible “...’really did happen’. And there the matter ends…. Facts or no facts”. N.T. Wrights claims are never fully

In reading Bill Davis’ book, In All Things Christ Preeminent, it is evident that receiving an education at Covenant College will be a unique spiritual and intellectual experience. With Christ present in all areas of the school, the structure of the college and what it as an institution aspires to accomplish varies greatly from that of the high school I attended. Based on the Christ-like goals, instruction, and student body of Covenant College depicted in In All Things Christ Preeminent, receiving an education from Covenant seems vastly different from my secular experience at LaFayette High School.

It is possible to write on the life of Jesus from the information gathered from the bible. I will be dividing my essay into three parts. In the first part of the paper, I will talk about the nature of the gospels, John’s views vs. the Synoptic, discuss if the authors of the gospels are eyewitnesses and how they used written sources. Also I will talk about the Q source. Then I will elaborate on the topic of how Matthew and Luke were similar. Then I will continue on by discussing how the Old Testament uses Moses, Samuel and Elijah to interpret Jesus, and finally whether or not the Sermon on the Mount happened. In the second part of my paper, I will talk about Jesus’s birth and childhood, his miracles, his resurrection, and what Jesus did to cure people, spirits and how they are interpreted to the prophet, magician and the mad man compared to Saul and Elijah. The final part of the paper I will talk about what Jesus talked about as regards to the Kingdom of God vs. the Kingdom of the Romans and what he intended by speaking of the end of the world. I will also speak of the reasons behind the Romans executing him. My sources for this paper will be the New Jerusalem Bible Readers edition as my primary source and lecture notes from Professor Trumbach.

Some scholars argue that evidence of Jesus of Nazareth 's existence can only be found within the writings of the New Testament. They believe that the New Testament is a biased and unreliable source for the existence of Jesus. They therefore claim that Jesus did not exist. The historical existence of Jesus is necessary to demonstrate the truth of Christianity. While Christian scholars do not discount the reliability of the New Testament as a historical document, they are also able to point to other historical documents and consider non-Christian writings which support the existence of Jesus. In this paper I will argue that Jesus the Nazarene was an actual, historical person and that this can be demonstrated through extra-Biblical resources.

The novel “Under the Feet of Jesus” is written by Helena Maria Viramontes. The excerpt that was read mainly focus on the protagonist Estrella. When analyzing the excerpt, some of the information that the reader received was that Estrella loathe not knowing things and she continued to ask about the chest that everyone was harvesting for and no one ever answered her. Also that Estrella is in school and some of the teachers had a problem with her hygiene. The author used literacy devices so the novel could be understood better. The three literacy devices that were used were selection of details, figurative language, and tone.

In the excerpt from the novel Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena María Viramontes, the author utilizes rhetorical questions, similes, and dehumanization in order to develop Estrella as a character who feels frustrated with the way that her life has treated her so far, but when someone finally takes the time and effort to teach her something, she stops feeling like a useless waste of space, and starts feeling proud and happy. The passage opens with the rhetorical question, “So what is this?”, and the follow-up, not far behind, “So what is this about?” This sets the tone of the passage. The point of view character, Estrella, is clearly not happy with the toolbox when she finds it.

In the Bible after Jesus was baptized Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights. While he was fasting, Satan appeared and tried to tempt Jesus into turning bread out of stones. Jesus did not fall for the temptations but Victor did fall for the temptations from his supernatural source playing in his mind.

Two thousand years ago, the birth of Jesus, arguably the most influential man the world has ever seen, altered history forever. Christians know him as the Messiah, the son of God who came to save all of mankind, and for others, he may just be a great teacher and person of history. It is the latter that Reza Aslan attempts to shed an unbiased light on by comparing the Jesus that modern Christians believe in to the Jesus that Aslan believes would have fit into first-century Palestine: a violet revolutionary, dedicated to the eradication of the Roman government in Israel and the deposition of the rich priestly class. Aslan paints a portrayal of Jesus using knowledge of the time period, Scripture that has been taken out of context and misinterpreted, and most of all, the author’s imagination and powerful rhetoric to cover up his faulty argumentation. In his book Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Reza Aslan recreates an interesting but purely speculative image of the historical Jesus through exploring the political and social history of first-century Palestine, the life and teachings of Jesus, and the development of early Christianity.

We have now come to the fourth and final book of Mere Christianity. In this book, the author takes us to the place in our Christian growth where we begin to rely more heavily on the power of God and less on ourselves to become the being that God originally intended for us to be — a son of God. He begins with an explanation of the difference between “making” and “begetting”.

Parallel Lives of Jesus: A Guide to the Four Gospels by Edward Adams is a book that is focused on the unity of all four narratives Jesus’s life. This book is a very good example of an introduction to the four Gospels and a method to study the Gospels.

Yancey starts out with the image of Jesus. When he was young he had envisioned Jesus to have angelic features such as, young, handsome, and a compassionate face. It wasn’t until he entered into a Christian college, that he was introduced to the real image of Jesus. I had an immediate connection with Yancey. I too had an image of Christ in my head, which consisted of Hollywood portrayals and those in classical paintings. It wasn’t till I engaged myself at a Christian college, that I have now received a new and more accurate picture of Christ. His book, The Jesus I Never Knew, questions the reader with the thought, “How many Christians today are in the same position, not fully understanding

From Jesus to Christ tells the story of how Jesus changed throughout his life from his birth to his death. The parts of the film depict on how Jesus life was shaped through his surroundings and influences on his life, the time after Jesus was crucified and how that sparked the movement of Christianity, the Gospels representation of who Christ was and their own story, and lastly how Christianity faced challenges. The first part begins as almost all Christians know the story, the angel Gabriel sent by God to Galilee to tell the virgin Mary she would bear a child named Jesus. Known as Jesus of Nazareth, later to the world as Jesus Christ, we know little about him other than the words of the Gospels, his birth two thousand years ago, his baptism, and his public execution. The hardest part is the lacking amount of material from the actual time of Jesus and trusting the words written decades later.

Throughout the book of John, Jesus did many signs and miracles. Through these signs, Jesus attempted to show both the multitudes as well as his disciples one small truth about Him—His is God. In this gospel, Jesus goes toe-to-toe with many of the Jewish spiritual leaders (i.e., Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, etc.) in order to show the people who He truly is. Scholars disagree with how many Messianic signs Jesus performed, but one thing remains—every single sign pointed back to the fact that Jesus was who He claimed to be. The signs performed by Jesus show both the Israelites of old, as well as the people of today, that He is, indeed, God.